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Tom Bateson, afterwards Sir Thomas, M.P., very 

 good-looking and a charming gentleman. 



Hunter Allgood, Nunwick, Northumberland, 

 afterwards M.F. H., Tyndale, a rare good fellow, 

 very witty and full of fun, and a capital horseman. 

 He had a famous little horse by " Dr. Syntax ". His 

 o-un burst at Norwich and blew his thumb off. He 



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rode in a steeplechase with one hand. 



John Madocks, by good luck, was my Lieutenant, 

 and our ambition was to get the men to look like the 

 9th Lancers. 



John Morgan Gwynne- Hughes, from 14th Light 

 Dragoons, was my Cornet, in height about 6 feet 

 3 inches. A wonderful musician and a wonderful 

 man to eat. He had a pack of hounds at home at 

 Tregyb Llandilo, which he gave to the regiment, 

 and they became the 13th Light Dragoons' Stag- 

 hounds. 



I wrote from 



" CoLNBRooK, Tuesday, 2 Sth January, 1842. 



"My Dear Mother,— 



" I suppose you would like to know my 

 operations since I left you. I had a very prosperous 

 journey by the ' Chevy '. When I got to Eckington, 

 near Derby, who did I see but that everlasting ' Sam 

 Slick' standing with his carpet-bag. I did not speak 

 to him, so I don't know where he went to. I had 

 two very pleasant companions going to Oxford — 

 Seaton. a friend of Graham Montgomery's, and 

 Mercer, who, I think, had been at Langhorn's with 



